An essay on the most effectual means of preserving the health of seamen, in the Royal Navy. Containing directions proper for all those who undertake long voyages at sea ... or reside in unhealthy situations. With cautions necessary for the preservation of such persons as attend the sick in fevers / [James Lind].

  • Lind, James, 1716-1794.
Date:
1762
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Credit: An essay on the most effectual means of preserving the health of seamen, in the Royal Navy. Containing directions proper for all those who undertake long voyages at sea ... or reside in unhealthy situations. With cautions necessary for the preservation of such persons as attend the sick in fevers / [James Lind]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. HIS book was firfi: published, foon JL after the commencement of the prefent war with France, as a plan of direc¬ tions for preferving the Britilh feamen from fuch diftempers as prove much more fatal to their corps, than all the other calamities inci¬ dent to them at fea. For the number of fea¬ men in time of war, who die by fhipwreck, capture, famine, fire or fword, are indeed but inconfiderable, in refpedt of fuch as are de- Jlroyed by the fhip difeafes, and by the ufual maladies of intemperate climates. The Abbe Mafcas has tranflated this EfTay into French, and it appears there was an or¬ der given by the French king that it (hould be diftributed to both the Indies, and to all the maritime parts of his dominions. Dr. Wind, an eminent phyfician in Middle- burgh, has tranflated it into Dutch, with the addition of fome judicious notes. c My